Italian edit

Etymology edit

Likely related to stentare (to have difficulty).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bi.stenˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: bi‧sten‧tà‧re

Verb edit

bistentàre (first-person singular present bistènto or bisténto[1], first-person singular past historic bistentài, past participle bistentàto, auxiliary avére) (obsolete, intransitive)

  1. to suffer greatly
  2. to wait painfully, to linger uneasily

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ stento in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading edit

  • bistentare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication